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As real estate prices continue to soar at higher levels and discourage builders to offer affordable dwelling units to masses, it would be extremely difficult for them to construct buildings that are environment friendly since it costs them 25-35% more than normal cost of construction.
Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has approved the establishment of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) at an outlay of Rs.5990 crore to be implemented by NIC over a period of 10 years. Point-wise details 1. Background: 1.1 One of the important recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) is to inter-connect all knowledge institutions through high speed data communication network. This would encourage sharing [...]
India will need at least 800 more universities and another 35,000 colleges in the next ten years to increase the percentage of students going for higher education from the present 12.4 percent in the country, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said . “India has about 480 university and about 22,000 colleges. If we were to increase that figure of 12 percent to 30 [...]
1. The PDS Control Order, 2001 came into existence almost eight years ago. The Targeted Public Distribution System had been in operation since 1997. It was realized that the large scale diversion can be curbed by computerization and therefore provision was made for providing computerized codes to the Fair Price Shops (FPS) and monitoring the functioning of the Public Distribution System at [...]
The context of rising food prices, an anticipated National Food Security Act (NFSA), submission of reports in the Supreme Court on corruption and inefficiency of Public Distribution System (PDS) has finally brought issues of access to food, food procurement and distribution into discussion in the mainstream media, both print and electronic. The PDS is the most important instrument of the [...]
The Andhra Pradesh government on 25th March 2010 received a major boost with the Supreme Court, in an interim order, upholding the validity of 4 percent reservation provided to backward members of Muslim community in the state. A bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices J M Panchal and B S Chauhan, however, referred the issue to aConstitution bench [...]
A reservation for back ward Muslims is now hotly debated. Several questions are asked. Several doubts are being expressed. A closure look at these questions and studied response is needed to dispel false impressions deliberately created on the subject.
The Congress Government in Andhra Pradesh announced reservation for Muslims in educational institutions as well as in jobs. This has been done by creating category E for Muslims, as there already exists categories A, B, C and D for “backward classes.” The reason for creating the category E for Muslims seems to be that Muslims in A.P. are extremely backward [...]
In a major development, a High Power Committee established by the state government of Kerala in India has recommended that Coca-Cola be held liable for Indian Rupees 216 crore (US$ 48 million) for damages caused as a result of the company’s bottling operations in Plachimada. The Coca-Cola bottling plant in Plachimada has remained shut down since March 2004 as a [...]
India will add over 7,450 km of gas pipeline network over the next 2-3 years to ramp up its supply lines to keep pace with the growing demand from the consumption centres in the country. Asia’s second fastest growing economy has most of the gas pipeline infrastructure concentrated in west and north while the south and east have largely been [...]
Affirmative actions refer to at least three kinds of measures available to help the socially disadvantaged: affirmative action, positive discrimination, and strict quotas in school/college admissions and jobs. It can take many forms, from setting up special schools or vocational guidance facilities to declaring that the government will encourage specific groups to apply for jobs. Quota-based seats for scheduled castes [...]
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